[camus2]

> while paying much less attention to the vocal minority's complaints

That's debatable. Those who can't stand the language don't bother using it,therefore don't bother complaining about it.

My point is Go biggest critics have already abandoned the language long ago.

Go reminds me Rails. It had a huge success 8 years ago but since all other languages have caught up when it comes to RAD webdev. The JVM and others will eventually catch up.

[bsaul]

i don't think you can "catch up" with go, because it has aimed at being minimalist. catching up by removing major features to a language isn't something i've ever witnessed.

[camus2]

> because it has aimed at being minimalist.

You can absolutely catch up with the concurrency model, on the single binary deployment, and a other features. Go isn't "minimalist", that's false, go look at the reflect package, it's complex as hell.

[golangnews]

I’ve used go for around 5 years on multiple large deploys without touching the reflect package. It is neither recommended nor necessary.

Go is radically minimalist compared to other languages - it leaves a lot out, most notably inheritance.